Dr. Pradeep Kumar Mallick is currently working as Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Odisha, India. He has completed Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) from Kongju National University South Korea, PhD from Siksha Ó’ Anusandhan University, M. Tech. (CSE) from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), and MCA from Fakir Mohan University Balasore, India. Besides academics, he is also involved various administrative activities, Member of Board of Studies, Member of Doctoral Research Evaluation Committee, Admission Committee etc. His area of research includes Algorithm Design and Analysis, and Data Mining, Image Processing, Soft Computing, and Machine Learning. He has published 10 books and more than 70 research papers in National and international journals and conference proceedings..Dr. Preetisudha Meher is currently working as Assistant Professor in National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh, India. She has completed her PhD from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India in the year 2015. Her PhD research work is on “Design and analysis of improved domino logic with noise tolerance and high performance”. She has done M. Tech and B. Tech from BPUT Odisha. She has guided almost 10 BTECH and 8 MTECH projects in various domains. She has published 12 journals, 32 conference papers, 5 book chapters and 2 books during her industry and academic work. At present, she is working in the field of Low Power VLSI, Bio Informatics and IOT. She has been awarded as Outstanding Woman in Engineering Award conferred by Centre for Advance Research and Design at International Women Meet-2018 on 1st March 2018 held at Chennai, India. She has been awarded Best Paper in the year 2018 at International Conference on Information System Design and Intelligent Applications, Mauritius and also in the year 2019 at Internationalconference on Intelligent System and Control Communication at Bangkok. She has organized a Workshop on “Recent Trends in VLSI Design” at NIT Arunachal Pradesh from 8th to 12th January 2018 and also International conference on Intelligent System and Control Communication at Bangkok on 27-28 June 2019 as convener.Dr. Alak Majumder has completed his PhD degree from NIT, Arunachal Pradesh, India and is working there as an Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE. He earned his M-Tech in Microelectronics & VLSI and BE in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from NIT Agartala and TIT Agartala. He also served as Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at ICFAI University, Agartala. He has 75+ technical articles, 6 filed Indian Patents and 1 US Patent to his credit. His current research interests include Analog-Digital VLSI, Clock Gating and Distribution and Wireline Communication Circuit. He is a Member of the IEEE, IAENG andIACSIT. Prof. Santos Kumar Das is a R&D professional with more than 17 (1 years after BTECH, 7 years after MTECH (Foreign Industry), 5 years during PhD and 4 year after PhD) years of valuable experience on various Software developments and research activities both in industries and academics. At present, he is working at National Institute of Technology as an Assistant professor. He worked at SDSU, California, US as an adjunct faculty for one month on Software Defined Network. He is academically astute and technically brilliant with a Master Degree specializing in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India and PhD Degree from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. His PhD research work was on “Quality of service estimation for an Optical Virtual Private Network over WDM/DWDM network”. His current research work is on software defined network (SDN), IoT, sensor networking, optical networking, Smart City product development, and embedded system. He has guided almost 40 BTECH and 30 MTECH projects in various domains. He has published 12 journals, 25 conference papers, 8 patents (filed), and 4 book chapters during his industry and academic work. At present, he has submitted one PhD student and guiding 12 PhD ongoing students in optical networking, IoT and embedded domain. He is also managing three high value funded projects (440 lakh), where 30 to 40 students are working.
